It depended on how a person looked at it.
I sensed my life depended on it.
Her father was planning something that depended on her magic.
His sole security was the loop of this rope around his body, between his legs, across his back and over his shoulder, which he then grasped as if his life depended on it.
She paused and stared at him, unable to comprehend an entire planet that depended on her.